more trios

Here are a bunch of trios that don’t fall easily into the pivot, rank or file classifications.

See also the pages of duets and trios and quartets, do-si-dos, group pivots, files and ranks.

These figures represent generic types rather than specific instances. Though they make excellent studies for practising your paddling, the real interest lies in what you can do by varying and connecting these and other formations in a dance.

Ratings: simple (for a competent style paddler) ; challenging ; really hard

Click any figure to see an animation.

straight line vee

rotating polygon (triangle)

rotating H +

line into star

line into polygon

parallel stop turn to star

parallel stop turn to polygon

+ parallel circles

interlocking circles

linked circles starting parallel

linked circles starting rotated +

+ curve pivot -.5

curve pivot 2.5 +